Instant takeaways as the Nuggets fell to 0-1 in NBA Cup play with a 109-107 group stage loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night at Moda Center.
End-of-game nightmares
The Nuggets are a couple of plays away from being 5-0. Instead, they’re 3-2 with a pair of heartbreakers on the road.
They’ll be haunted by the sequence of calls at the end of this one. After Christian Braun missed a 3-point attempt that would’ve given them a five-point lead (he had another shaky night offensively), he picked up a foul trying to defend Jerami Grant’s missed layup in transition.